She has a PhD in Classics, and still obsesses about ancient literature when she isn’t busy obsessing about superheroes, musketeers and fictional hockey. You can find her on Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook.

Are pop culture essays your thing? Check out Pratchett’s Women, a series of essays on the portrayal of female characters in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, and It’s Raining Musketeers, a series of reviews of adaptations of The Three Musketeers in film and television across the decades. Or you can go over to Tor.com where a bunch of Tansy’s writing is available free, including one of her all-time most popular essays, Historically Authenticated Sexism: Let’s Unpack That.

She also fights writes crime! The Cafe La Femme series by Tansy’s alter ego Livia Day are fun mysteries featuring Hobart’s cafes, delicious desserts, vintage clothing and the occasional horrible murder: A Trifle Dead, Drowned Vanilla and The Blackmail Blend.